ORGANIC CHEMISTRY LABORATORY I

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2014/2015

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in CHEMISTRY

Disciplinary Sector:

Organic Chemistry

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

CARRARO Massimo

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

A basic knowledge of general chemistry is recommended

AF code:

40003909

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Evaluation of laboratory notebook (to be submitted in advance), written and oral examination.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims to give the student the theorical knowledge and the practical ability to use simple labware and basic techniques applied in Organic Chemistry. At the end of the course, the student must be able to organize an experiment, handle chemicals, purify a reaction mixture, perform simple characterization, write a laboratory notebook.

Contents

Laboratory safety, glassware and labware, melting point, reflux, distillation, sublimation, filtration, recrystallization, extraction, chromatography, UV-visible IR and 1H-NMR sectroscopies.
Reactions: elimination, addition, nucleophilic aliphatic substitution, electrophilic aromatic substitution.

Recommended Bibliography

La chimica organica in laboratorio. I laboratori, i composti organici, i metodi e le tecniche sperimentali; Marco D'Ischia; Piccin; ISBN-13: 978-8829916214
Experimental Organic Chemistry: A Miniscale and Macroscale Approach and Spectroscopy; John C. Gilbert; Brooks/Cole; ISBN-13: 978-0030340635
The lesson slides will be available

Teaching Methods

24 hours of lectures and 64 hours of laboratory experiments.

Contacts/More Information

1) Readiness to offer individual assistance also in English language to incoming students
2) Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in english language.
List:Experimental Organic Chemistry: A Miniscal and Macroscale Approach and Spectroscopy; John C. Gilbert; Brooks/Cole; ISBN-13: 978-0030340635

Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual 6e: A Student's Guide to Techniques; James W. Zubrick; John Wiley & Sons; ISBN-13: 978-0471215202

3) Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language (English)

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